One thing that "old Intel" used to do a lot was trying to find use cases for more performance. This used to be a strong fear internally, that at some point silicon would get "good enough" and you wouldn't need to buy better silicon. Gelsinger was very much part of that a decade or two ago, but I guess he's getting more rational and accepted that yes, to run Office pretty much anything will do. At the same time, the n…
>This used to be a strong fear internally, that at some point silicon would get "good enough" and you wouldn't need to but better silicon. Little did they know the software community would do this work for them by making slower and slower software.
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."[1] was a joke in the 90s and some people said the trend was obvious by the late 80s[2].